if you read the privacy policy, it'll become very apparent to you that they are not in buisiness in the interest of the customer... and it has always been that way.
.e. www.perceive.net
one simple comment. I find it quite sad tat the majority of the posts have absolutely nothing to do with solving the security problem that Undernet is facing. An even worse reflection on the moderation system at slashdot is that fact the the few posts about the issue were not moderated up, and the others down.
I *HIGHLY* reccommend Shutterfly. I have been using them for a few months now. They have developed about 5 rolls of film for me, and I've also uploaded many digitally-created drawings & CGI to them, and had them all printed to 4x6's, and/or 8x10s. the quality is superb, service is excellent (they answer email in the same day), and the website is quite easy to use.
You can upload directly though the browser, so it is quite platform independent.
35mm Film development is free, they even pay to ship the roll there, and to send you the negatives back.
geez. will this not end? We have a very simple system. a machine looks at the votes. the machine is not biased. the machine counts only votes that are absolutely a positive vote. there is no question about this fact. Unfortunately, some people are unable to read directions, and then bitch about thier own incompetence. It amazes me that these people are able to drive cars, but can't seem to puch out the right hole. .e. www.perceive.net
I'm not sure that this is the biggest problem, because it is dealt with in the court system.
i think a larger problem with print media (that is rarely seen on slashdot) is the bias that is put on non-editorial news articles. sit down with your local major paper, and read an article on the front page. take two highlighters with you. mark each FACT that you see in the article that is backed up with something. then with the other marker highlight everything that is an assumption, doesn't have a source, is speculation, etc. I guarantee that you will have more of the second color in ANY article than the first color.
Journalists today do not report the factual news, they report the news that best suits the newspaper, or television media for that matter.
the paper (Louisville Eccentric Observer), is one of the few papers I have ever run across that plainly lets you know the bias they have against a particular news item, and reports the facts.
/. has more than one page... have you ever notice the "Sections" area to the left? they could just as easily has a "Retractions" section, rather than using the front page.
Are print media unable to, because of some physical restriction, to put thier corrections and retractions on the front page? I doubt it. i tend to think they put it on the inside (and quite often in smaller text), because they are not as interested in presenting the news correctly, as they are in presenting whatever makes them the most money.
why would they want to use precious front page space to show that they goofed? I'm quite sure they would rather make a buck.
on a related note, Is there someway for the TiVO to receive it's data through an internet connection? I have a permanent internet connection, and would like to be able to plug a TiVO into the RJ45 jack in my den, and have the TiVO use that connection, rather than dialing up.
Unfortunately I doubt the majority of the users would keep very good track of how much the mp3s they've downloaded takes out of thier allocations, much less keep track of each web page and each image on that page that they view.
of course, you could give them a website they could go to to check on the amount of bandwidth they have used that day, or maybe write a quick little app that shows it in thier taskbar.
As an alternative, what I think would really kick butt, is to send all non-violent criminal offenders to boot camp for varying lengths of military service.
Why only Non-Violent Criminals? Maybe we should have a few platoons of Violent Criminals. Drop them over a country we don't like, and let them loose!
You're then also back to the question of whether it is part of a good voting system to allow people to not vote or not (I think there was a slashdot article about this awhile back)... Anyway... do we REALLY want the opinion of someone who is being "forced" to vote? It more than likely will not, IMHO, be a good logically thought-out vote.
I agree. This is definitely the best thing that has happened to the politics of the Internet for quite awhile. I also voted Karl #1, and am quite happy now.
How did the other candidates even think they could handle the job properly without even understanding DNS completely. Do you think that if General Motors was hiring a new CEO they would pick someone that didn't understand how thier product works? I doubt it.
It seems quite amazing to me that some of these people even applied. good to see a geek made it =)
I believe the problem is that no one wants to help someone until they help themselves. Maybe we should put some search forms or something in the post a submission section and give people some more guidelines for Ask Slashdot such as:
Must Search Google
Must Search newsgroups
ok... I can't think of any more right now. too early.
<rant>
ok, so who thinks that an ask slashdot entitled "Porting Apple Newton Apps to Palm?" should have made it into slashdot. Sorry, but I personally think that should have made it in much easier than this one did. Shit, this guy obviously didn't use everything (maybe anything) at his disposal. I've searched MANY search engines, read newsgroups, and my post didn't make it in.
</rant>
My father instilled in me that he was always there for me (as Ask Slashdot is), but until you've done everything you can in your power to figure out the problem, don't waste other people's time.
Sometimes I find it quite amazing that driving is an earned privledge (NOT right), and parenting (which can cause just as much damage to the human race) is somehow a right.
I think that it is quite possible that we should have to take a simple test (it doenst have to be too complex at all) to be able to use something like a 100Mbps connection.
does anyone actually think that with the current popularity of MP3s that anything else will take over? unti something much better comes along, MP3 will, IMHO, be the standard.
I have done quite a bit of development work for a company using Authorize.Net. I'm not exactly sure of thier pricing scheme, but the company I've done the development work for is quite small, I would supect they have some sort of plan for smaller companies.
Now, maybe I've missed something, but don't we ALL dialectize something when we read it?
Here's a scenario: A blind friend of mine is looking for a bank to setup a checking account with. He says he'd like to know more about Bank of America. So I proceed to load up said bank's website, and read it ALOUD to him.... what if I have a speach impediment or simply an accent. Am I not "Dialectizing" the website?
I'd have to say that my position in this scenario is the same as the dialectizers position.
...I'm now waiting for MY letter from the lawyers telling me to stop reading their website with an accent.
Maybe I've missed something here, but if the key has to be retransmitted when someone is listening, then why doesn't the third party just continue to listen, which would stop the first and second parties from sending a "safe" key. And why is this any different from now?
I also use a similar program written in perl for win32, which takes care of IE bookmarks. You can get it here. it will also create a yahoo-style site. As for organization, I have a terrible habit of saving anything that looks remotely interesting, so my bookmarks have recently passed the 700 mark. I use categories similar to yahoo, which seem to work quite well. I also use the Links bar for my daily/weekly sites, as someone else has suggested. Hopefully in the near future I will have a search feature for my yahoo interface.
I created a bot for IRC in Perl using a perl IRC client called sirc. it was quite a nice framework to use. Initially the bot was supposed to learn from things that were told to it by other users... I don't remember how far I got, but fromt he looks fo the code, it looks like I got pretty far.
Then it seems to me that management should concentrate on hiring good help, rather than coming up with processes that control the bad help.
Seems that having good people working is MUCH more productive than covering up the fact that your people suck.
Also sounds like because they continue to use bad help, that in the long run it would be cheaper to pay the good help more, and raise the amount paid to entice more help. it would cut out the job of the "process manager" and would cut the need to fix the bad people's mistakes. Sounds like a vicious cycle to me.
Maybe some managers should rethink and find more efficient ways to do thier job, even to the end of putting themselves out of a job.
waste not want not. .e. www.perceive.net
Maybe you haven't seen Disney's Aladdin part MCXII, released straight to video, with Tori Spelling as the voice of Princess Jasmine. I hear there's a new Lion King coming out on video too. In part three, Simba wages a courageous battle against the evil Loki the Gazelle, who wants to betray the pristine african savannah to an international cartel of mink farmers. Leonardo di Caprio hands down the performance of his career as the voice of Moolak the Gnu in this heartwarming classic sure to delight children of all ages. I'd have to partially agree with you. the Disney Company of today does seem to be far to commercialized, and money hungry. However, I don't believe that Walt Disney himself would have let Aladdin MCXII happen. In fact, there were no sequels produced while Disney himself was still alive.
Slashdot Mirror
if you read the privacy policy, it'll become very apparent to you that they are not in buisiness in the interest of the customer... and it has always been that way.
.e.
www.perceive.net
one simple comment. I find it quite sad tat the majority of the posts have absolutely nothing to do with solving the security problem that Undernet is facing. An even worse reflection on the moderation system at slashdot is that fact the the few posts about the issue were not moderated up, and the others down.
.e.
Ahh for some moderation points today.
www.perceive.net
I *HIGHLY* reccommend Shutterfly. I have been using them for a few months now. They have developed about 5 rolls of film for me, and I've also uploaded many digitally-created drawings & CGI to them, and had them all printed to 4x6's, and/or 8x10s. the quality is superb, service is excellent (they answer email in the same day), and the website is quite easy to use.
You can upload directly though the browser, so it is quite platform independent.
35mm Film development is free, they even pay to ship the roll there, and to send you the negatives back.
http://www.perceive.netwww.perceive.net
geez. will this not end? We have a very simple system. a machine looks at the votes. the machine is not biased. the machine counts only votes that are absolutely a positive vote. there is no question about this fact. Unfortunately, some people are unable to read directions, and then bitch about thier own incompetence. It amazes me that these people are able to drive cars, but can't seem to puch out the right hole.
.e.
www.perceive.net
You forgot one rung: Engr-->CompSi-->InfoSys-->Marketing-->Liberal Arts-->Communications
I'm not sure that this is the biggest problem, because it is dealt with in the court system.
i think a larger problem with print media (that is rarely seen on slashdot) is the bias that is put on non-editorial news articles. sit down with your local major paper, and read an article on the front page. take two highlighters with you. mark each FACT that you see in the article that is backed up with something. then with the other marker highlight everything that is an assumption, doesn't have a source, is speculation, etc. I guarantee that you will have more of the second color in ANY article than the first color.
Journalists today do not report the factual news, they report the news that best suits the newspaper, or television media for that matter.
check out in a local paper that talks about a couple local TV stations, and how they distort the facts.
the paper (Louisville Eccentric Observer), is one of the few papers I have ever run across that plainly lets you know the bias they have against a particular news item, and reports the facts.
/. has more than one page... have you ever notice the "Sections" area to the left? they could just as easily has a "Retractions" section, rather than using the front page.
Are print media unable to, because of some physical restriction, to put thier corrections and retractions on the front page? I doubt it. i tend to think they put it on the inside (and quite often in smaller text), because they are not as interested in presenting the news correctly, as they are in presenting whatever makes them the most money.
why would they want to use precious front page space to show that they goofed? I'm quite sure they would rather make a buck.
on a related note, Is there someway for the TiVO to receive it's data through an internet connection? I have a permanent internet connection, and would like to be able to plug a TiVO into the RJ45 jack in my den, and have the TiVO use that connection, rather than dialing up.
Any ideas?
Good idea. that pretty much takes care of "Search all search engines" =)
Unfortunately I doubt the majority of the users would keep very good track of how much the mp3s they've downloaded takes out of thier allocations, much less keep track of each web page and each image on that page that they view.
of course, you could give them a website they could go to to check on the amount of bandwidth they have used that day, or maybe write a quick little app that shows it in thier taskbar.
As an alternative, what I think would really kick butt, is to send all non-violent criminal offenders to boot camp for varying lengths of military service.
Why only Non-Violent Criminals? Maybe we should have a few platoons of Violent Criminals. Drop them over a country we don't like, and let them loose!
You're then also back to the question of whether it is part of a good voting system to allow people to not vote or not (I think there was a slashdot article about this awhile back)... Anyway... do we REALLY want the opinion of someone who is being "forced" to vote? It more than likely will not, IMHO, be a good logically thought-out vote.
I agree. This is definitely the best thing that has happened to the politics of the Internet for quite awhile. I also voted Karl #1, and am quite happy now.
How did the other candidates even think they could handle the job properly without even understanding DNS completely. Do you think that if General Motors was hiring a new CEO they would pick someone that didn't understand how thier product works? I doubt it.
It seems quite amazing to me that some of these people even applied. good to see a geek made it =)
The idea could be taken and rearranged/modified to make it different, and then patent that!
ok... I can't think of any more right now. too early.
<rant> ok, so who thinks that an ask slashdot entitled "Porting Apple Newton Apps to Palm?" should have made it into slashdot. Sorry, but I personally think that should have made it in much easier than this one did. Shit, this guy obviously didn't use everything (maybe anything) at his disposal. I've searched MANY search engines, read newsgroups, and my post didn't make it in. </rant>
My father instilled in me that he was always there for me (as Ask Slashdot is), but until you've done everything you can in your power to figure out the problem, don't waste other people's time.
At leas they didn't kill the Radio Star.
Sometimes I find it quite amazing that driving is an earned privledge (NOT right), and parenting (which can cause just as much damage to the human race) is somehow a right.
I think that it is quite possible that we should have to take a simple test (it doenst have to be too complex at all) to be able to use something like a 100Mbps connection.
does anyone actually think that with the current popularity of MP3s that anything else will take over? unti something much better comes along, MP3 will, IMHO, be the standard.
I have done quite a bit of development work for a company using Authorize.Net. I'm not exactly sure of thier pricing scheme, but the company I've done the development work for is quite small, I would supect they have some sort of plan for smaller companies.
Now, maybe I've missed something, but don't we ALL dialectize something when we read it?
Here's a scenario:
A blind friend of mine is looking for a bank to setup a checking account with. He says he'd like to know more about Bank of America. So I proceed to load up said bank's website, and read it ALOUD to him.... what if I have a speach impediment or simply an accent. Am I not "Dialectizing" the website?
I'd have to say that my position in this scenario is the same as the dialectizers position.
...I'm now waiting for MY letter from the lawyers telling me to stop reading their website with an accent.
--Eric
Maybe I've missed something here, but if the key has to be retransmitted when someone is listening, then why doesn't the third party just continue to listen, which would stop the first and second parties from sending a "safe" key. And why is this any different from now?
I also use a similar program written in perl for win32, which takes care of IE bookmarks. You can get it here. it will also create a yahoo-style site. As for organization, I have a terrible habit of saving anything that looks remotely interesting, so my bookmarks have recently passed the 700 mark. I use categories similar to yahoo, which seem to work quite well. I also use the Links bar for my daily/weekly sites, as someone else has suggested. Hopefully in the near future I will have a search feature for my yahoo interface.
I created a bot for IRC in Perl using a perl IRC client called sirc. it was quite a nice framework to use. Initially the bot was supposed to learn from things that were told to it by other users... I don't remember how far I got, but fromt he looks fo the code, it looks like I got pretty far.
email me if you'd liek more information
Then it seems to me that management should concentrate on hiring good help, rather than coming up with processes that control the bad help. Seems that having good people working is MUCH more productive than covering up the fact that your people suck. Also sounds like because they continue to use bad help, that in the long run it would be cheaper to pay the good help more, and raise the amount paid to entice more help. it would cut out the job of the "process manager" and would cut the need to fix the bad people's mistakes. Sounds like a vicious cycle to me. Maybe some managers should rethink and find more efficient ways to do thier job, even to the end of putting themselves out of a job. waste not want not.
.e.
www.perceive.net
Maybe you haven't seen Disney's Aladdin part MCXII, released straight to video, with Tori Spelling as the voice of Princess Jasmine. I hear there's a new Lion King coming out on video too. In part three, Simba wages a courageous battle against the evil Loki the Gazelle, who wants to betray the pristine african savannah to an international cartel of mink farmers. Leonardo di Caprio hands down the performance of his career as the voice of Moolak the Gnu in this heartwarming classic sure to delight children of all ages.
I'd have to partially agree with you. the Disney Company of today does seem to be far to commercialized, and money hungry. However, I don't believe that Walt Disney himself would have let Aladdin MCXII happen. In fact, there were no sequels produced while Disney himself was still alive.